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The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf's Camarillo facility now produces 514 coffee and tea blends that are shipped globally through its distribution center in Los Angeles

DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Jay Isais, senior director of coffee, roasting and manufacturing, explains how the labeling on a bag of coffee denotes from which of 16 countries Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf buys it, during a tour Wednesday of the company’s warehouse and factory center in Camarillo.

DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Gladys Mi Jango loads one-pound packages of coffee into boxesWednesday, at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf warehouse and factory center in Camarillo.

DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR David DeCandia, director of tea, pours a single cup of sencha tea for a tasting Wednesday at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf warehouse and factory center in Camarillo.

DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR David DeCandia, director of tea, contemplates the taste of his cup of sencha tea Wednesday at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf warehouse and factory center in Camarillo.

DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR A tour group is led through the manufacturing area Wednesday at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf warehouse and factory center in Camarillo.

DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR David DeCandia, director of tea, who believes smell, taste, sound and vision are important to properly learning the qualities of a tea, uses his sense of smell to judge a cup of sencha Wednesday at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf warehouse and factory center in Camarillo.

DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Master roaster Jesse Martinez watches as roasted coffee beans are blended Wednesday at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf warehouse and factory center in Camarillo.